null analysis with control flow

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 21 September 2016 at 13:10:53 UTC, w0rp wrote:
>
> 1. Most languages (including D) do not support pattern 
> matching. If pattern matching was added, it would be totally 
> alien to any programmers coming from C, Java, JavaScript, 
> Python, etc. This means this method of handling null might not 
> be adopted.

I don't see why pattern matching would be alien. It's kind of 
like a super-charged switch.

D's algebraic in std.variant could be used to represent a limited 
Option type, no?